Demi Lovato thinks America needs to take it easy on former Disney stars like herself, and especially, Miley Cyrus.

“I think that the worlds needs to get over the fact that she was Hannah Montana when she was 16,” The X Factor judge told Katie Couric during an interview. “I guess my transition was a little easier because I went straight to rehab. I didn’t twerk, I just went to rehab.”

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